Cocos. | PALMACEAE. 451 
Mr. Lydgate on Kohala ridge, Hawaii, has the rhachis and its branches quite woolly. 
Possibly the latter specimen, which comes without leaf or notes attached, may represent 
i i species. 
tis this same palm which abbas part of Bird Island, a small voleanic rock 400 miles 
Kauai. A tree, raised from seed brought thence in 1858 by the late Dr. Rooke, 
stands in the Palace yard in Fonitulu: 
natives distinguish varieties with yellow and red fruit. They eat the kernel of 
the frolt before it is ripe, and of the leaves they make fans and hats; hence the trees are 
often found mutilated, with only one or two leaves at the top of the bare trunk. 
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n rs e tree. 
Tongan and Vitian names «Biu» and «Viu» point to «Niu», the name of the cocoanut palm 
or palms in general. 
2. P, Martii, H. Wendl. 1. c. — Trunk shorter, generally not exceeding 
5—6 ft., but as thick as in no. 1. Leaves on longer petioles, glaucous 
below and glabrous, not woolly, but in the younger state sparsely covered 
with 5 glaucous spathes. Calyx densely striate, the streaks converging 
toward the teeth. Drupe greenish, globose, 15—20” in diameter, with a 
dense fibrous layer under the exocarp. Embryo almost axile. — Livistonia (?) 
j . 58 Ma 
and on a small rocky islet opposite Waikolu, probably also on Kauai between Waimea 
and Hanalei. In Nuuanu, where until a recent time two clumps could be seen ‘om 
companying the fragment of an inflorescence collected by Mr. eager in veoe Oahu 
gives the height of the tree as 12 ft. and that of the peduncle as 0 ft.! this and 
the former species have been intr troduced into the botanical oh odio : 
2. COCOS, L. 
Flowers monoecious, both sexes in the same spadix, which is enclosed 
before expansion in a single woody fusiform spathe, sessile, bracteate, 
the male in the upper, the female in the lower portion. Male fl. Sepals 
Stamens yD e torus; anthers linear-sagittate, erect € 
much larger pin — e, increasing after flowering. Sepals and petals 
coriaceous, broad o imbricate, the latter enclosed by the former. 
Ovary 1-celled vi cells Sa ae Style short, with 3 subulate stigmas. 
Drape ovoid, rather trigonous, 1-seeded, woody, with a thick layer of 
fibres under the exocarp, the bony putamen with 3 holes near the base 
Embryo rmed 
8 with cnenthy tall trunks. Leaves terminal, pinnate, ae seoapgazi 
